Dubbed “Omega 3,” the modern home was envisioned as a series of four concrete and glass bars laid into the hill.

The home’s main bar was designed to contain the kitchen and family room, with playrooms below and bedrooms above. The eastern bar was designed as the master suite. The home’s entry and formal living areas are contained in the middle bar. And the western bar/bridge was designed to contain “the music archives, studio, and work room for the rock-star owner.”

And if a plugged-in reader is correct, the aforementioned “rock-star owner” is, or at the very least was, Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich. No official word on why Ulrich abandoned the project.

[Editor’s Note: As we reported earlier today, “the existing plans for the estate call for a massive 34,000-square-foot villa, or a more modest 19,000-square-foot modern home with separate guest house and various other buildings, to rise upon the site.”]

I really wanted to triangulate a Weird Al version of a Metallica song for you guys, but I really can’t believe there that many readers who would appreciate the narrow Venn diagram intersection of 90’s metal and planning/building woes.

Existentially, I wonder if one professionally channels youthful discontent into stadium shows of loud angst, is it the opposite of metal, or the height of metal to own a hilltop compound.

This is the best I got for you on short notice:

ENTER PLANMAN
Know your codes, little one
Don’t forget, my son
To include every one

Holy cow! I can’t believe I haven’t seen this listing before. Has it been kept deliberately quiet? (Truly listing has it on the market for 180+ days.)

I live in the area and there is a very popular trail that rings King Mountain. The vast majority of locals think of this as open space. I think Marin NIMBYism might be even more intense than that seen in San Francisco. I can only imagine the public sh*tstorm if ground were to be broken to create this monstrosity, not to mention what would happen in response to the vineyards and stables promised in the video promotion.

The Marin of today loves developers. Corte Madera has built hundreds of new homes and a couple of thousand condos and rentals units in the past two years. They are considering high rise construction as I write this comment. With all this growth, not one new road or bus line has been built or put in service. Welcome to Malibu North.

I grew up right next to this “property.” My understanding was that a Metallica member bought it and planned to build a giant house in the shape of a “M.” Trees were cleared, a work permit was up and fence put at the entrance of the property. The project was then clearly abandoned, way longer than ten years ago, and I am quite sure the property has been for sale for many, many years.

I have lived for years near here and the property does appear abandoned. With what happened in Middletown, this 160 acres of Scotch broom and downed trees represents a horrible danger to surrounding homes in Larkspur and Kentfield. I just went to a community meeting about fire danger in the area and the “fuel load” on King Mountain was brought up as a major issue that needs to be dealt with. The owner has got to be facing some liability issues if there ever is a fire.

Cut Lars some slack. He grew up in the 60% income tax paradise that Bernie Sanders is so fond of. There, you don’t do “something worthwhile” with your money, because (a) you don’t get to keep enough of it, and (b) you’re brainwashed to believe that the confiscated part is already being spent on “something worthwhile”.

I was in Denmark 2 weeks ago and it was fabulous. Many of the taxis were Tesla Model S and there were no bums to speak of. I’ll take Copenhagen over San Francisco any day. The people are markedly happier there, too, BTW.

No they’re not. They have a higher suicide rate and a higher consumption of anti-depressants than we do here. Yes, it’s nice that you don’t encounter as many vagrants on the street, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t “bums”, just that they are given tax payer-funded apartments. Look deeper. I lived there over 10 years, I know whereof I speak.